Now the object of the greatest dread is death, because it is the end of all things, and the dead man is thought to be capable neither of good nor evil.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

These pages have, of course, no other general purpose than to point out that we cannot create anything good until we have conceived it.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

If they live in court, they are up and down, ebb and flow with their princes' favours, Ingenium vultu statque caditque suo , now aloft, tomorrow down, as [709] Polybius describes them, like so many casting counters, now of gold, tomorrow of silver, that vary in worth as the computant will; now they stand for units, tomorrow for thousands; now before all, and anon behind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The presence of the middle classes not only gave, as it were, a stamp of grandeur to fêtes of an aristocratic and religions character, but, in addition, the people themselves had a number of ceremonies of every description, in which etiquette was not one whit less strict than in those of the court.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Being taken out becomes an interest to the child; mother and child not only go out with each other physically, but both are concerned in the going out; they enjoy it in common.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I covet no other guerdon!”
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The Adevineaux Amoureux, printed at Bruges by Colard Mansion, are astonishing indeed when one considers that they were the little society diversions of the Duchesses of Burgundy and of the great ladies of a court more luxurious and more refined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Monsieur de Balibari dines at the missions, but en petit comite, not on grand days of reception.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He could not only give an account of the various public buildings and noblemen's houses which they passed in ascending the Thames, but knew how to season his information with abundance of anecdote, political innuendo, and personal scandal; if he had not very much wit, he was at least completely master of the fashionable tone, which in that time, as in ours, more than amply supplies any deficiency of the kind.
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

[153] pealed to for a contradiction, said that Harry had spoken the truth, and that it behooved Punch to fold up his clothes neatly on going to bed.
— from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling

] Charles Sissmore Tomes ( b. 1846), F.R.S., late lecturer on dental anatomy at Dental Hosp. of London; Crown nominee on General Medical Council, 1898, etc.; author of a “Manual of Dental Anatomy, Human and Comparative,” and of many memoirs on odontology in “Phil. Trans.,” etc.—[“Who's Who.”
— from Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton

You've got a chance now of getting out of it all, and—( He looks at his watch )
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Characteristic Nest of Gygis Nest and Eggs of Herring Gull We passed about two weeks in this location in the most ideal weather, without pitching tent, sleeping on the ground rolled in our blankets, our canopy the heavens glittering with myriads of stars overhead.
— from Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland by William S. Thomas

The general was in every way a more striking figure, but I was manifestly a fresh stranger, who knew nothing of the country, and certainly nothing of gypsies or gypsydom.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

He soon became popular, and was known under the name of Captain Needham, of Gray's Inn; and whatever he now wrote was deemed oracular.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli